The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-03-05
CASTLE ETTRlCK.
An Old Soldiers Love
Story.
ICONTINuED /


soon."
Il thought l might venture 10 steal !
march on you, he said How are you all
1t seems ages since l went sway"
ut seems ages to me, said Lady Flora
with a sigh. Everything is as it was"
"Letty-Aliss Morrison, l mean
Il believe she is in the schoolroom.
viii send my maid to tell her you have
come"
The maid, who was rung for, went il
search of Lefty, and returned with the
news that she was neither in the school.
room nor with Miss Milly.
Then she must have gone out. Foolish
child and the weather SO threateningl'
said Lady Flora. IF you are not too tired
Twill 60 in search Of her with pleasure,
he answered
At this moment Mrs. Wilson, Lady
Flora's daughter, and two or three otheI
ladies came into the drawing-r room, saving
that the rain had begun. Colonel Lyndon
who stood III the shadow while they were
III the light, made sure that Lefty WAS not
among them, and then hurried away to
look for her.
After her little supper with Milly in the
schoolroom that evening, Lefty had stoler
down into The garden. She was dressed IL
the dead-white robe that she had worn wheI
she took, for few moments, the character
of Marguerite at Deep Deane, and tina
Veronica had insisted upon giving TO her
her head was without covering of any kind
and as she walked slowly across the greer
sward, with her hands crossed in front OF
her and her eyes cast down, she looked il
the failing light like beautiful phantom
Meeting no one, she walked on to the sum.
mer- house-a little rustic ledge which
crowned low hill beyond the shrnbbery
that bounded the lawn.
In the en- trance TO the summer house
she stopped and looked back. Her hear
was beating much faster than usual, but
her face was pale, and her feet and hands
were as cold as ice. Seeing no one, she
bre4thed deep sigh, which was partly OF
relief and partly of trouble, and was about
10 retrace her steps toward the house, wher
arustiing sound among the shrubs to the
rlght of the summer-house struck her ear
and she hesitated for moment.
In the next moment she heard a familiar
voice saving:
4 beg your pardon for disturbing you
Miss Morrison, # it is really you"
At the sound of the voice Lefty trembleC
and every particle of color left her face
The moment she had been at once dread,
ing and longing for had come then. She
was bound 10 speak.
Captain Winstanley," she said, In Low
and tremulous voice, which had most Gu.
rious effect upon him, Il want to speak tc
you. Win you be angry with me if | say
exactly what think?'
angry with yout" he exclaimed.
She Interrupted him hastily. ooh
please-please, do not speak in that way
AFN-a II how .frlf 10 ha
and aud-1 know / have no right to say
anything. But there is no one else, =" CRIED
poor Lefty piteously ;" and l love them al
so. And | thought if l told you-I, who
have no interest in anything but Seems
others -that-that-'
Poor child she had undertaken tasl
that was almost too much for her strength
Sit down" said Percy, drawing her into
the summer house; you are trembling
All there is the thunder We shall have
storm. And you have nothing on you,
head, nothing on your shoulders"
Pray pray-do not mind me-" sale
Lefty earnestly.
But do mind you. Who could help it
I mind you so much and there h
broke short, awed, it might be, by tn,
startled expression Of her face. Il mean,
he said seriously, that | am ready to lister
10 whatever you have to say"
The poor child rewarded him with one o
her sweetest smiles. Thank you," sh
said; that makes il easier for me to speak
And then she poured out what, for SO man
days, She had been boarding mp in he
heart; told him IN so many words, that b.
was acting selfshly; begged him not to q
into q foreign army; said that if he did 8,
1t would break his mothers heart, and end
ed by giving him, IN few words her sim
pie little creed. ave were not put into tn
world to live for ourselves ! an
certain of it, said Lefty "If We liv
IN that way, we are going agains
our nature, and We must-we must-be
unhappy. God wills us to have pleasure
out only so-ohi l am sure of til an
cure of it-only in making happiness an,
good for others. II it is for those we love.
she cried, her sweet voice thrilling with
passion which she could not restrain. "thel
We may suffer-yes, suffer-untiI We die
and yet count ourselves blest."
To all this what could Percy say? The
were new thoughts to him. Lefty ha,
judged him rightly. 1t was no innate self
ishness of character; 1t was thoughtless
ness or inability-only too common, slas!-
70 enter into and understand the feelings O
others, that had been the cause of his un
conscious cruelty. Brought face TO fac
u
own life as he bad never seen it before.
When, after brief pause, during whic
one of them could have heard the beatin
If the others heart. Percy spoke, there wa
no trace IN his manner of the airy gallant
y that, had not Lefty been the most limo
cent and simple being upon earth, Nigh
have alarmed her at the beginning II
was too deeply penetrated with re- pect an
admiration to be able TO speak TO be
lightly
Tie merely thanked her for speaking I
him with so much frankness, and said tina
he would consider what she had said.
The meantime he hoped she would believ
that he did not wish to make his mothe
md friends unhappy. Then-for the threat
ened storm had not come-he walked b
her side as far as the terrace steps, an
hade her goodnight with the respect h
might have shown to queen.
When Colonel Lyndon left Lady Flora
he tookthe direction of the summer hoas.
which lie knew 10 be one of Letty's favorit
haputs.
he little hoop of pearls was in his pocket
lie took II out Of its case, and held it In I'll
hollow OF his hand. Would it. or would
not, be transferred presently 20 the littl
hand which was so dear TO him? This wa
tAe que, ton lie was asking of himself u
he walked slowly across the shadowe
sward.
He approached the summer house fror
the left. 1t was surrounded On both side
~ trees, so that he Was not seen. Thi
was the moment when Lefty was standin
IN the entrance of the summer house, an
when Percy, who had come no from the op
Posl'e direction, was looking at her.
II was usual IN the evening for the sum
Inef house to be lighted by swingin
lamp. This lamp swung over the entrance
and as Lefty stood, its light shone ful
upon her. Both of the men, who, being un
conscious OF the others presence, had thei
attention liked upon her, noticed the wist
tul eagerness OF her face. One vas on tn
point Of speaking; the other, us We know
spoke. When Percy Winstanley's voic
Tell upon the silence, and when, with tn
~ " one whose expectation is fulfilled